Basketball District Finals and a new camera!

A couple days ago I took delivery of my new favorite camera of all time!! This thing is amazing, I won’t bore you with a lot of geeky tech talk (unless you ask…) ;) But suffice to say I would have a hard even imagining a better camera than Canon’s latest and greatest 1D MkIII (techy review here). I haven’t been this excited about a camera in years, maybe ever. :)

On to the pictures. I don’t know anything harder to test new equipment than fast moving subjects in the dim fluorescent lights of a high school gym, so I went to the first couple games of the girls basketball district finals in Tumwater last night. These were all taken at either ISO 2000 or 2500, and they are very clean files.

The full set is here: Evergreen 2A district finals

Update: I just posted the galleries for the GU16 Soccer game, South Sound Futbol Club (SSFC) vs Synergy and also for theĀ  Boys 2A basketball district tournament.

I started out at Tumwater High School for the Black Hills Wolves vs the Mark Morris Monarchs and then went over to the Black Hills High School for the Tumwater Thunderbirds vs the Elma Eagles.

Coach giving instructions during a time out

Cheerleader at the basketball game

driving for a layup - girls basketball Olympia WA

layup closup action shot

Elma pride!!

getting ready to shoot a free throw

driving the lane for a basket

pick and roll

driving around the apponent towards the basket

moving in for the score

That’s all for now, I’ll add some more later from the boy’s games I’m going to today (their tournament starts tonight). :)

Tomorrow Erin and I are going to a fund raising auction for a friend of her’s that has cancer and needs the community’s help with all the huge medical bills, we’re donating a little something to the cause.

“What’s that? What’s that you say? You say it’s Saturday? Goodbye, I’m going out to play!”

~Bill


Comments

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    You got the Mark III too? No fair? You can Erwin are trying to get cooler toys than us! ;) Will you be at WPPI?

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    Hey Airika,

    You’re right it’s not fair, and what do you mean ‘trying’?? ;-) I just booked my ticket for WPPI a couple days ago, I’m excited!!!

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